Developing a sustainability framework for the assessment of bioenergy systems

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6075-6083

  Elghali, Lucia ^a   Clift, Roland ^a   Sinclair, Philip ^a   Panoutsou, Calliope ^b   Bauen, Ausilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioenergy systems; Multi criteria decision analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; ENERGY POLICY; SUPPLY CHAINS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOENERGY SYSTEM; DECISION-CONFERENCING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOENERGY; BIOMASS POWER; DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35648943309     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.08.036     Document Type: Article

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